reina dash attack spike hitboxes need to be moved downward#266

(edit: clips didn’t upload properly, screenshots are below)
the recent nerf to reina da’s spike hitboxes leaves the move with a considerable disjoint above her but a negative disjoint below her
this allows it to cleanly beat options above her that it has no business hitting, but leaves her elbow negatively disjointed enough that recoveries will sometimes win against what appears to be a perfectly placed spike

reina da vs zetter downb from above, with and without hitboxes visible

reina da vs fleet upb from below

While I appreciate that they actually made La Reina’s dash attack hitbox considerably smaller in the recent patch. It definitely doesn’t make any sense why it reaches so high still. For that Zetter example there is no world where it makes sense for La Reina to win that interaction.

I think if the hitbox were cut down to be just the bottom 1/3rd of the current hitbox that would be logical for this move. It would leave a bit above her exposed to it could actually be contest from above. While still filling the space where it actually makes sense to be getting hit.

I’ll keep saying they need to actually go through and properly adjust majority of the hitboxes in this game. So many are nonsensical with the amount of excess space they take up for no reason. This just creates way more frustrating and unintuitive interactions.

I still think about seeing that reddit clip of Wrastor down special losing to Kragg down-tilt coming from above onto Kragg’s body.

I think Aether Studios just really likes having spikes reach above the character’s body even if it makes no sense. This is at least a little more reasonable than Zetter’s dair because of hitbox interpolation, but it’s still weird.

Was talking about this on the previous board: Reina DA for some reason hits Maypul Tether above. They changed the hitbox, but the interaction still works the same: https://rivals-of-aether-ii-patch-160.nolt.io/1068